{"article":{"id":246633,"heading":"BTL:Wal-Mart Wins, Workers Lose in U.S. Supreme Court Decision Rejecting Class Action Disc","author":"Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http","created":"2011-06-25 10:01:07","modified":"2013-11-11 01:06:27","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:06:27","article":"<p>Wal-Mart Wins, Workers Lose in U.S. Supreme Court Decision Rejecting Class Action Discrimination Lawsuit  <br><br> Interview with Chris Owens, attorney and executive director of the National Employment Law Project, conducted by Scott Harris  <br>  <br>   <br>  <br> In a 5 to 4 decision on June 20, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out an 11-year-old class action lawsuit filed against giant retailer Wal-Mart. The lawsuit represented several women plaintiffs claiming gender discrimination and potentially represented 1.5 million female Wal-Mart workers nationwide. The major issue in the case was whether the lawsuit satisfied a requirement of the class-action rules that &ldquo;there are questions of law or fact common to the class&rdquo; filing the suit. The conservative majority on the court ruled it did not.   <br><br> Story continues <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btlonline.org\/2011\/seg\/110701bf-btl-rothschild.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.btlonline.org\/2011\/seg\/110701bf-btl-rothschild.html<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"mail(AT)btlonline(DOT)org","link":"Between the Lines c\/o Squeaky Wheel Productions P.O. Box 110176 Trumbull, CT 06611","address":"Between the Lines c\/o Squeaky Wheel Productions P.O. Box 110176 Trumbull, CT 06611","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Interview with Chris Owens, attorney and executive director of the National Employment Law Project, conducted by Scott Harris","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2011\/06\/246633.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}